AUTHOR & PRE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER
A lifetime of adventure and writing and photography is being celebrated in Bridget’s final book, My Mother and the Curate.
My Mother and the Curate
“What a great idea for a book!” Joe Corrick, Brecon & Radnor Express
“Irresistible social history!” Mary Steele, Kilvert Society
Gorgeous new hardback book with colour and historical black and white photos.
The diarists lived in and near the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye, loved to walk in the surrounding countryside, and confided their longings and sorrows to the diaries published here.
Limited edition for £20, during 2025 and 2026. Contact Bridget below to find out how to order your rare, signed copy.
Hay Girl
the girl from the book festival town
Three books in one, writing in her childhood name Bridget Ashton
Hay before the Bookshops or The Beeman’s Family
Hit the Road, Gals
Cold War, Warm Hearts
Read them all together in this NEW combined trilogy
Read about each of them in new separate editions below
Newly designed and published 2024
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First of the Hay Girl trilogy
Hay Before the Bookshops
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The Beeman’s Family
“This account of a post-war childhood is as compulsive as any page-turning thriller! The author captures beautifully the now-vanished world she grew up in, to create a book that is both a memoir and a fascinating piece of social history. The diaries of her poetic mother add another intriguing dimension to the tale.”
Barbara Fox
Author of Bedpans and Bobby Socks; Is the Vicar in, Pet?
Newly designed and published 2024
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Second of the Hay Girl trilogy
Hit the Road,
Gals
Travel back in time to the vibrant 1960s…
“The further back Bridget Ashton delves into her immature apprenticeship as a latter-day Freya Stark or Egeria, the sharper her pen; the more ironic, funny and daring her writing becomes. With Hit the Road, Gals, she hits her stride, as if there is not a moment to be lost on life’s wondrous yellow brick road.”
Max Adams
Author of the King in the North, The Wisdom of Trees
Newly designed and published 2024
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Third of the Hay Girl trilogy
Cold War, Warm Hearts
“The warmth of the author’s reception did not surprise me, nor the events, activities and people. What hit me ‘out of the blue’, so to speak, is the crystal clear, utter honesty of her prose, which arches over the events and physical happenings and reach deeply into the reader’s soul, dragging back events, memories, places, colours, smells, loves, beauty, kindness and ugliness.
Henry Gulyas
Refugee from Hungary 1956
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MORPETH HISTORY BOOKS
2011 ~ 2018
An epic 7 book series on the history of Morpeth
Over 2011 to 2018, with GMDT (Greater Morpeth Development Trust) and some of the books funded by the Heritage Lottery fund, Bridget has written seven books covering different aspects of Morpeth’s illustrious if at times somewhat murky past.
Morpeth has had its full share of medieval history – a Royal market charter, the kings’ wars, child birth at the castle, a hated king, the illegal hunting and killing of deer in the king’s forest, a wicked sheriff and a child marriage…it is all there.
Together her books will stand the test of time as enduring social records of life in the town perhaps not widely known or written about in the way Bridget has done.
DRURIDGE BAY BOOKS
1991 ~ 1997
The fight against a nuclear power station at Druridge Bay, Northumberland
From 1978 to 1989, people in Northumberland and from across the North East battled against the government’s plans to put up to three nuclear power stations at Druridge Bay. The full story was summarised in the Druridge Bay Campaign’s first publication, Generating Pressure.
From 1989 onwards, campaigners took on Ready Mixed Concrete and Nuclear Electric. RMC was removing sand from the beach by the lorry load. King Canute and shareholder pressure was used against them. At the same time, petitions, actions, and government lobbying continued for the land prepared for nuclear power stations to be returned to local ownership. Power at Bay tells how both aims succeeded in 1996.
Tide Lines is an inspiring collection of poetry and art by local and nationally renowned writers and artists, that celebrates Druridge Bay.
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